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Daily Mail:
Another politician forced to resign after sending naked pictures to woman he had online relationship with — A politician who emailed a woman nude photos of himself that were posted on a GOP activist's website has resigned and said he will consider all legal options to have the pictures taken down.
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JammieWearingFool:
'Maybe He Hasn't Noticed or Doesn't Care, But the Country is Giving Up On Him' — I'm not of the mind that Barack Obama doesn't care about his fortunes in the wake of the debt deal hammered out this week. He obviously cares since he's now jetting off for his biggest fundraisers of his re-election campaign.
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Pierre Thomas / ABCNEWS:
D.B. Cooper Mystery: Alleged Niece Comes Forward — A woman claiming to be the niece of infamous skyjacker D.B. Cooper has spoken to ABC News in an exclusive interview about her role in the recently re-ignited 40-year-old cold case that has haunted the FBI for years.
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The Daley Gator, The Daily Caller, The Lede, Mediaite and New York Times
Paul Ryan / Wall Street Journal:
Where's Your Budget, Mr. President? — Ever since they fudged the numbers to pass ObamaCare, Democrats have abandoned credible spending plans. — During the negotiations over raising the debt ceiling, President Obama reportedly warned Republican leaders not to call his bluff by sending him a bill without tax increases.
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The Moderate Voice, TPMDC, The Gateway Pundit, Man Are We Screwed and The New Republic
Michael Joseph Gross / Vanity Fair:
Exclusive: Operation Shady rat—Unprecedented Cyber-espionage Campaign and Intellectual-Property Bonanza — For at least five years, a high-level hacking campaign—dubbed Operation Shady rat—has infiltrated the computer systems of national governments, global corporations, nonprofits …
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New York Times:
Security Firm Says It Found Global Cyberspying
Security Firm Says It Found Global Cyberspying
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The New Republic and The Daily Caller
Ellen Nakashima / Washington Post:
Report on ‘Operation Shady RAT’ identifies widespread cyber-spying
Report on ‘Operation Shady RAT’ identifies widespread cyber-spying
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The Politico, more at Techmeme »
Alan Colmes' Liberaland:
Republicans Attack Obama For Having A Birthday Party — Apparently, you're not allowed to do anything other than create jobs, if you're Barack Obama (Mr. Boehner, where are the jobs?). The right wing is going apoplectic because there is a star-studded Chicago fund-raiser in conjunction with his 50th birthday.
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Political Punch and The Impolitic
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Reuters:
Private sector added 114,000 jobs in July — (Reuters) - Private employers added more jobs than expected in July, though less than in June, but planned layoffs rose to a 16-month high, according to separate surveys on Wednesday. — The data comes ahead of the U.S. government's key jobs report on Friday …
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Money & Company and The Political Carnival
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Maureen Dowd / New York Times:
Washington Chain Saw Massacre — Even before Emanuel Cleaver, the Democratic congressman from Missouri, called the debt deal “a sugar-coated Satan sandwich” and Nancy Pelosi tossed in a side of “Satan fries,” the whiff of sulfur was rising from the Capitol.
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Hit & Run, National Review, Pajamas Media and Moe Lane
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Charles Lane / Washington Post:
Tea Party terror?
Tea Party terror?
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Hot Air, TheBlaze.com, Pajamas Media, Boston Globe and Moe Lane
Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Palin says she has no respect for Romney's debt-ceiling stance — Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) joined the attacks against Mitt Romney's handling of the debt-ceiling debate, saying she has no respect for how the GOP presidential front-runner handled the issue.
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Washington Post:
In debt deal, the triumph of the old Washington — To keep Democrats honest, the trigger would bring automatic cuts to some federal agency spending. To keep Republicans honest, Democrats wanted to trigger automatic cuts to the Pentagon's budget. — By Sunday afternoon …
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ThinkProgress, Taegan Goddard's … and C-SPAN Recent Events
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Ezra Klein / Washington Post:
McConnell: ‘The debt ceiling will not be clean anymore’ — (GETTY IMAGES) The most honest man in Washington did some more truth-telling on CNBC last night. Speaking to Larry Kudlow, Mitch McConnell made perfectly clear that the hostage situation we just went through wasn't a one-shot deal.
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Molly K. Hooper / The Hill:
How John Boehner escaped disaster — In the midst of a rebellion from his own colleagues, John Boehner faced a big decision. — It was 10 p.m. last Thursday, the most stressful moment of his Speakership. — Boehner's debt-limit bill was short on votes, and the GOP leadership was forced …
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The Politico, Power Line, Weasel Zippers, Nice Deb and The Gateway Pundit
Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online:
The Scariest 4 Economic Graphs I've Seen This Year — This is a remarkable sequence of pictures from Calculated Risk showing that no major economic indicator has returned to its pre-crisis level. In other words, after two years of recovery, not a single key broad measure of the economy has actually recovered.
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Vox Popoli, Calculated Risk and Prairie Weather
Edward Wyatt / New York Times:
Stalemate in Senate Leaves 4,000 Out of Work at F.A.A. — WASHINGTON — After dealing with the debt crisis, Senate negotiators tried and failed on Tuesday to end a stalemate over temporary financing for the Federal Aviation Administration, leaving 4,000 agency employees out of work and relying …
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Bill Chappell / NPR:
Reid Says FAA Shutdown Will Continue; Blames House, Delta Airlines
Reid Says FAA Shutdown Will Continue; Blames House, Delta Airlines
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ThinkProgress, Firedoglake, Daily Kos, Sky Dancing and Truthdig
Ian Millhiser / ThinkProgress:
Romney Advisor Robert Bork: Civil Rights Act Is ‘Unsurpassed Ugliness,’ But Contraception And Porn Bans Are Fine — Yesterday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney (R) announced his presidential campaign's “Justice Advisory Committee,” along with its co-chair Robert Bork.
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Cheezburger Network / The Daily What:
Just Watch This of the Day: Why the Internet Exists, Reason #143,106: “Mariachi Connecticut performing for a beluga whale at Mystic Marinelife Aquarium.” — [thanks tracey!]
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Lawrence Summers / Washington Post:
Moving forward after the debt deal — At last Washington has reached a deal that raises the debt limit and averts a default that would have been a national embarrassment and an economic and geopolitical catastrophe. The forces shaping the deal are multifaceted and so are reactions.
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Washington Monthly, Center for American Progress, ThinkProgress, Cato @ Liberty and TPMDC
Scott Wong / The Politico:
Senate blocking recess appointments — Following the House, the Senate will hold a series of “pro forma” sessions over the next month, effectively blocking President Barack Obama from making any appointments during Congress' August recess. — That means Obama won't be able to seat his pick …
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ThinkProgress, Outside the Beltway and Washington Monthly
Austin Frakt / The Incidental Economist:
Memo to the Super Committee — I know you haven't been established yet. Neither you, nor I, know who you really are. Still, it's possible you'll be pretty important between now and Thanksgiving so I thought I'd drop you this note. — I heard through the grapevine (OK, it was the internet) …
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Michael O'Brien / The Hill:
Obama plans August bus tour of Midwest — President Obama plans a summer bus tour throughout Midwestern states, a trip intended to boost economic morale in the region and shore up political support in battleground states. — The president will embark on the bus tour …
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New York Times, White House.gov Blog, Dependable Renegade, Gawker and Politics
Cameron Joseph / Ballot Box:
Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity endorses Sen. Hatch — Conservative talk show host Sean Hannity endorsed Sen. Orrin Hatch (R-Utah) on his radio show Tuesday, giving a boost to the lawmaker, who could face a primary challenge from the right next year.
Financial Times:
Rush for safety sends core debt yields tumbling — By Jennifer Hughes in London and Michael MacKenzie in New York — When benchmark German and US bond yields were last at their current low levels, the Federal Reserve had just launched its second round of “quantitative easing” …
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Washington Post and Grasping Reality …
Daniel Markovits / Los Angeles Times:
How the GOP lost on the debt deal — The deal reached by Congress eliminates the leverage that would have been created by another imminent default until after the next election, where it will be exercised by new and possibly differently constituted players.
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